Sudan is a country rich in heritage; scientific research outputs and traditional knowledge are the Collective Scientific Memory. This paper reviews S&D and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development in the ...

Sudan is a country rich in heritage; scientific research outputs and traditional knowledge are the Collective Scientific Memory. This paper reviews S&D and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development in the ...

Addis Ababa University (AAU), the leading academic and research institution in Ethiopia, produces a tremendous amount of research output. Theses and dissertations, scholarly journals, proceedings and staff/discussion papers ...

It is now over 10 years since the first online library service was introduced and much has happened to make digital collections a norm, not an exception. Libraries and archives have had to embrace ICT to keep abreast of ...

The Kenya National Archives was established in 1965 by an Act of Parliament to provide custody, among other functions, to public and private records of enduring value. It is worth noting that some information resources at ...

The Kenya National Archives was established in 1965 by an Act of Parliament to provide custody, among other functions, to public and private records of enduring value. It is worth noting that some information resources at ...

The paper reviews the digitization project carried out at the National Archives of Zambia. The patrimony of the National Archives of Zambia is immense and of unquestionable historical relevance. However, it has suffered ...

Archives administration in Zambia is the mandate of the National Archives of Zambia (NAZ) of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
This mandate is derived from the National Archives Act Chapter 175 of the Laws of Zambia, 1995 ...

This paper documents the learning experience of the Makerere University Digital Music Archive. It focuses on issues of digitizing sound, intellectual property management, and sustainability. Abrupt technological changes ...

The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation with a membership of five countries. Since its establishment in 1999 the Community has generated a lot of information and knowledge through its ...

EAC, a regional inter-governmental body since
1999: Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,
Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and United Rep. of
Tanzania
 The EAC aims at widening and deepening cooperation
among the Partner States, ...

Education is a central socio-economic right that provides the foundation for life-long learning and economic opportunities.
Literacy data published by the UNESCO1 Institute for Statistics (UIS) in 2007 shows that the ...

The overriding policy in editing these papers, as for the proceedings of ICADLA-1 in 2009, has been to retain as much as possible the original “voices” of the contributors, all of whom have presented and written in English ...

Digitization has spread world-wide like an infectious disease and no country has been spared. Guidelines, instructions and policies can be found in abundance on the Internet. Nevertheless, it seems that the same mistakes ...

With the agreement and subsequent signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Library of Congress (LC) and the National Library of Uganda (NLU) in 2009, NLU became an active partner institution of the World ...

The broadest definition of grey literature covers a body of literature that cannot easily be found by means of conventional published channels, and includes government research, non-profit reports and reports from other ...

The broadest definition of grey literature covers a body of literature that cannot easily be found by means of conventional published channels, and includes government research, non-profit reports and reports from other ...